Craig has provided senior level management advice and council on strategy, marketing and management to hundreds of emerging and expanding businesses throughout the western United States. He directed Ernst and Young's Entrepreneurial Management consulting services and owned and operated his own successful consulting business for many years.

He has served in a variety of senior operational positions at such companies as Franklin Covey, MarketStar as well as the Utah Governor's Office. He has operated and led numerous companies in the areas of software technology, consumer electronics, services, and most recently wireless broadband. 

He has helped numerous businesses raise investment capital, design product and operational strategies and implement successful marketing and sales campaigns. 

He has advised and consulted with numerous civic and community leaders on how best to strengthen and grow their economic and business base and achieve job growth. He has directly advised the Utah Governor's Office on strategies to strengthen and expand the Information Technology and Aerospace industries of the state.

He is a nationally published author, and as acted as an adjunct professor at Weber State and Brigham Young Universities. He has a degree from Weber State University and a Masters in Management from Brigham Young University. 

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In 1978, Craig founded LifeLink Corporation, which provides advanced sales life insurance proposal systems to financial professionals. He sold the company in 2004 and currently works as an investment consultant. He is a partner in the UtahAngels venture investing group and a member of the Park City Angel Network.

Craig holds a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.  He is active in the LDS Church, and served as the mission president of the Brasil Porto Alegre South Mission (2003-2006).

Craig teaches and mentors students in the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology of the Marriott School at Brigham Young University and the Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship at BYU-Hawaii.

His interests include running, basketball, skiing, backpacking, and mountain climbing. He has summitted three of the Seven Summits: Aconcagua (1996), Elbrus (2000), and Kilimanjaro (2000). He also did three climbs on Mt. McKinley and has climbed the Grand Teton and Devils Tower.

He and his wife, Colleen, have four children; all are BYU graduates, and ten grandchildren. They have lived in Riverside, CA, Newbury Park, CA, and Park City, UT.

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Robb Kunz is a Founder & CEO of several high-technology Companies, an Active Angel Investor and also the Founder & Managing Partner of ventureBlue Capital, an early-stage high technology investment firm and incubator

As an Entrepreneur, his expertise and track record revolves around starting, launching & funding emerging Companies. He is the Founder/CEO of KnowledgeBlue, an Open Source Systems Integrator and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firm. KnowledgeBlue was recently acknowledge as the 37th fastest growing Company in the State of Utah as part of the elite Utah100 group for 2009.

As an Investor, he founded and created ventureBlue Capital an early-stage high technology investment firm and incubator. He is an active Angel Investor as a member of the Olympus Angels Investors based in Salt Lake City, Utah and recently was acknowledge as one of the top 15 Angel Investors in the State of Utah for 2009. He is an active Director / Board Member of RedSpan Inc and GuestSpan.

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John Richards is an active angel investor, focusing primarily on Internet and software companies headquartered in the Wasatch Front area of Utah. He often mentors entrepreneurs on a regular basis, employing the combination of his experience and teaching skills to help new ventures achieve their goals.

John was president of a publishing company in Seattle, Washington for several years and later had the experience of being part of a company that went from nothing to an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock market.

John is an associate professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship and venture finance in the Marriott School of Management and the School of Technology. At BYU he also serves as Associate Director over Technology Entrepreneurship of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology.

John and his family reside in Provo, Utah.

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